Background

Sir Peter Leahy Bonfield, CBE, FREng, serves as the President and Board Mentor at CMi. Sir Bonfield serves as Vice President at The British Quality Foundation. He serves as Advisor at OHM, Inc. He was Chief Executive Officer of BT Group plc. He served as Chief Executive Officer of British Telecommunications Plc from January 2, 1996 to January 31, 2002. After various design, manufacturing, and management roles he joined ICL Plc in 1981, as a Group Marketing Director and ... Member of the Main Board. Since 1984, he served as Managing Director of ICL plc after its merger with STC plc. Sir Bonfield served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ICL plc from 1984 to 1996. He began his career at Texas Instruments in Europe, United States, and the Far East. He has been Chairman of the Board of NXP Semiconductors NV since August 2010. He served as the Chairman of ICL plc after its merger with STC plc.He has been Director of Ericsson Telecomunicacoes S.A. since 2002. Sir Bonfield serves as a Member of Global Advisory Board of The Longreach Group and a Member of Advisory Board at New Venture Partners LLC. He has been an Independent Director of GlobalLogic, Inc. since February 11, 2014. Sir Bonfield has been a Director of Mentor Graphics Corp. since 2002 and serves as its Lead Independent Director. He has been an Independent Director of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited since May 7, 2002. Sir Bonfield has been an Independent Director of Ericsson NV/SA and Ericsson since 2002. He serves as a Director of Ericsson Inc. He serves as Board of Advisors at Silent Circle, LLC. He serves as Director and Member of the Advisory Board of Sony Corporation; Director of T.S.M.C and Global Logic.; Non-Executive Director of Corporate Board of the H.M.G. Department for Constitutional Affairs; Member of Advisory Board of the Citi International; and a Director of mmO2 plc. He serves as the Chairman of Small Business Charter, Senior Advisor Rothschild, Chairman of the Board of East West Institute, Board Director of East West Institute. He also serves on the boards of Chair of Council and Senior Pro-Chancellor of Loughborough University. He was the Chairman of DESC Ltd. He served as a Director of Ericsson S.p.A. since 2002. He served as Non-Executive Director of Actis Capital, LLP. He served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NXP Semiconductors NV since September 29, 2006. He served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at NXP B.V. since September 29, 2006. He was a Non Executive Director of Dubai International Capital LLC. Sir Bonfield served as Member of Supervisory Board at NXP B.V. and Citigroup Inc. He served as Member of Advisory Board at NXP Semiconductors NV. He was Director at 0-In Design Automation, Inc. He served as a Senior Non-Executive Director of AstraZeneca PLC and its Non-Executive Director since January 1, 1995. He served as a Director of MCI Communications Corp., since 1996. He served as the Non-Executive Director of BICC PLC, from 1992 to 1996. He has also been a Member of the Civil Service College Advisory Board. Sir Bonfield was awarded the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in January 1989 and knighted for his service to industry in 1996 to the UK. He has received other highly-esteemed recognition awards which are the Order of the Lion of Finland, Institute of Management Gold Medal, UK, Mountbatten Medal, honorary doctorates from 11 universities, Outstanding Executive – Texas Tech University, USA, USA Patent for Solid State Software Module and voted as one of the top 25 Managers of 1996 by Business Week. He is an International Business Executive with over 45 years of experience in the fields of electronics, computers and communication. Sir Bonfield is a graduate in Physics and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Longh borough University of Technology.

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